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00:12

Prices of 217 Food Products to Rise in Japan in Dec.

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2025/11/28

Prices are slated to rise in Japan in December for 217 food and beverage products from 195 major Japanese makers, Teikoku Databank Ltd. said Friday.

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00:08

Japan's Prince Hitachi Turns 90

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2025/11/27

Japanese Prince Hitachi, the younger brother of Emperor Emeritus Akihito and uncle of Emperor Naruhito, turned 90 on Friday.

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00:14

Health Insurance Likely to Be Kept Applied to...

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2025/11/27

A Japanese government subcommittee on public health insurance on Thursday basically agreed to ask patients for additional payment for prescription medicines whose ingredients and effects are similar to over-the-counter drugs while maintaining insurance coverage for them.

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00:11

Japan Mulls Hiking Permanent Residency Permit Fee to...

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2025/11/27

The Japanese government is considering a plan to raise the fee for issuing a permanent residency permit to as much as 300,000 yen from the current 10,000 yen, it was learned Thursday.

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00:12

LDP-Led Coalition Seen Reaching Majority in Lower House

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2025/11/27

Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party has asked three independent lawmakers to cooperate with the LDP in the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of the Diet, it was learned Thursday.

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00:10

BOJ Must Avoid Tardy, Premature Rate Hike:...

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2025/11/27

The Bank of Japan must raise its policy interest rate at a timing that is not too late and not too early, BOJ policymaker Asahi Noguchi said Thursday.

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00:12

8 Japan Automakers' Global Production Falls 1.5...

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2025/11/27

The combined global vehicle output of eight major Japanese automakers fell 1.5pctfrom a year earlier to 2.22 million units in October, data from the companies showed Thursday.

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00:13

Japan Denies WSJ Report on Trump-Takaichi Phone Talks

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2025/11/27

Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara on Thursday denied a Wall Street Journal report claiming that U.S. President Donald Trump advised Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae not to provoke China over Taiwan.

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00:17

Japan FY 2025 Extra Budget to Total 18.3 T. Yen

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2025/11/27

The Japanese government's upcoming supplementary budget for fiscal 2025 will total 18,303.4 billion yen, a record high excluding the COVID-19 pandemic years of fiscal 2020 to 2022, it was learned Thursday.

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00:16

INTERVIEW: Nippon Ishin May Leave Govt if Seat Cut...

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2025/11/27

Takashi Endo, parliamentary affairs chief of Nippon Ishin no Kai ()削除, warned Thursday that his party may leave the ruling bloc if talks with its coalition partner, the Liberal Democratic Party, on reducing the number of House of Representatives seats falter.

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00:14

Japan FY '26 Budget Policy to Highlight...

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2025/11/27

Japan's upcoming basic policy for the fiscal 2026 regular budget will highlight spending to promote investment in artificial intelligence and other select areas in order to realize a powerful economy, a draft showed Thursday.

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00:08

Dolls Featuring Iconic Figures, Events of 2025...

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2025/11/27

Traditional Japanese "hina" dolls featuring this year's iconic people and events were unveiled Thursday to the press in Tokyo.

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00:09

Japan-Central Asia Summit to Be Held in Tokyo in Dec.

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2025/11/27

The Japanese government is preparing to hold a summit with five Central Asian countries in Tokyo in mid-December, informed sources said Thursday.

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00:16

Onuma Elected ICAO Council President, First from...

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2025/11/27

Toshiyuki Onuma has been elected the next council president of the International Civil Aviation Organization, becoming the first Japanese to lead the U.N. specialized agency that sets global aviation rules, the Japanese transport ministry said Thursday.

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00:13

Maebashi Mayor Resigns amid Hotel Scandal

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2025/11/27

Akira Ogawa, mayor of Maebashi, the capital of Gunma Prefecture, eastern Japan, is set to resign on Thursday following a scandal involving repeated visits to a hotel with a married male subordinate.

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00:16

International Conference Rejects Blanket Restriction...

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2025/11/27

Signatories to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, known as the Washington convention, voted at a committee meeting on Thursday to reject a proposal to restrict the trade of all eel species, including the Japanese eel.

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00:12

2 More Local Govts Back Restart of N-Plant in Hokkaido

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2025/11/27

The village of Kamoenai and the town of Kyowa have expressed their support for the restart of the No. 3 reactor at Hokkaido Electric Power Co.'s Tomari nuclear power plant in the northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido.

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00:15

Japan's Asahi Sees 1.9 M. Sets of Personal Data...

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2025/11/27

Japanese beverage giant Asahi Group Holdings Ltd. said Thursday that 1,914,000 sets of personal information were compromised due to the recent cyberattack that prompted a suspension of shipments of beer and other products.

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00:14

Saga Improper DNA Analyses Had No Impact on Probes: NPA

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2025/11/27

Improper DNA analyses conducted by a former Saga prefectural police member have had no adverse impact on investigations by the police in southwestern Japan, the National Police Agency said in an interim report on Thursday.

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00:13

Japan Upper House Panel Votes to Lower Gasoline Tax

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2025/11/27

Japan's House of Councillors Financial Affairs Committee on Thursday unanimously approved legislation to scrap the provisional gasoline tax surcharge of 25.1 yen per liter, effective Dec. 31.

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